What is nectar?

Nectar is like the sweet drink that flowers make to attract friends who help them reproduce.

Imagine you have a favorite juice box, it's sweet and tasty, right? Nectar is like that juice, but instead of being in a box, it’s inside flowers, and bees or butterflies are the ones who drink it. When they sip on nectar, they get energy to keep flying around all day.

Flowers make nectar so that when bees or butterflies come to drink it, they also carry some of the flower's pollen, a special powder, to other flowers. This helps the flowers have babies (called seeds), just like you might have a baby brother or sister one day.

So next time you see a bee buzzing around a pretty flower, imagine it’s having a little snack and helping the flower grow more flowers!